Go on Craigslist and respond to ads for apartments that aren't listed with an agent for lease, etc., and introduce yourself, and say if they ever consider selling, to contact you, etc.

60-75% of market value minus repairs is not a deal to them by any stretch of the imagination unless you're adding some kind of other value to the equation for them.The value you're adding may just be getting them out of a house payment...but if they have high equity, it's not their only property, and they have only owned the property for 7 years it's unlikely they're really hurting for money.

I have a feeling, that in a D area of Columbus, I would not want to be into it at any more than about $90,000.

We had 31 acres, purchased 10 steers, built a 1 acre lake which was stream fed from our stream with an island in the middle and a dock on the side, over a half-million board feet of commercial timber, a food storage room and even planted a 50 tree fruit orchard.

This way your not spending your days doing secretarial work when you want to be adding value or getting deals.

I'm not sure what the rental market is like, but you don't want your properties sitting vacant because you are charging more than everyone else by adding water.

Stocks are a global market so brokerages can buy large ads to promote their brand, creating more public awareness and "noise" about stocks.

So I found an ad in my local craigslist "You pay taxes, you can have the house."

Then the fifth day was a Sunday, which added another day, day 6.

Paying cash, and adding 3% for closing costs, you'd be all in at 103k.